Four workers at a dairy farm that supplied the nation’s largest frozen pizza manufacturer with cheese have been charged with a total of 11 counts of animal cruelty, according to a recent statement (caution: graphic content). The charges stem from a hidden-camera video that exposed how animals at the Wiese Brothers Farm in Wisconsin were kicked, beaten and whipped. At the time of the investigation, the farm was a supplier to DiGiorno Pizza, part of Nestlé’s pizza division.
Abelardo Jaimes, Crescencio Pineda, Lucia Martinez and Misael Monge-Minero have all been charged with violating Wisconsin’s animal cruelty statute. The investigation was instigated by Mercy For Animals, an animal protection and welfare group, which caught the workers’ disturbing actions in a video and presented it to the authorities. “The actions of these people went beyond rough handling and escalated to the level of cruelty,” said animal welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin, in a statement.
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